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Representative Bartleman Reacts to Memo Recommending an Incinerator Right Next to the Everglades

Posted on September 16, 2024

CONTACT:
Savannah Peifer 
Office of Representative Robin Bartleman

[email protected]
850.717.5103
 
WESTON, Fla – Last week, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (D-Miami) sent a memorandum to the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners recommending using the old Opa-Locka West Airport, located near the border of West Miramar, for an incinerator site. The west airport location is one of three sites the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners has been considering after the Doral Incinerator burned down early last year. 
 
For months, the City of Miramar has been in opposition of placing an incinerator at the airport location. The airport location is less than a mile away from Miramar and is on the edge of the Everglades. The Doral incinerator is known to have emitted many pollutants considered dangerous for both the residents in Miramar and wildlife living in the Everglades. 
 
“I am shocked and dismayed that the Miami-Dade Commission would consider placing an incinerator so close to our most precious natural resource. The State of Florida and the federal government have invested over a billion dollars thus far to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) and this goes against our very promise to preserve Florida’s natural environment,” said Representative Robin Bartleman (D-Weston). “I sincerely hope the Miami-Dade Commission reevaluates this decision and thinks about the detrimental impact this can have on our tourism industry, potential health costs to the residents of Miramar and Miami-Dade, and the fiscal impact to clean up any leaking pollutants that will further harm our endangered and vulnerable species in the Everglades, and recommends another site away from the Everglades.”
 
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